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I think what we need is a port of Qemu. If you've ever used JSLinux[0] on an iPad, you know that it's plenty powerful to emulate riscv64 or x86 fast enough (eve
by snazz 8y ago
I think what we need is a port of Qemu. If you've ever used JSLinux[0] on an iPad, you know that it's plenty powerful to emulate riscv64 or x86 fast enough (even in JavaScript), so if there would be a proper PC emulation layer on an iPad you could run anything (Linux, *BSD, GNU/Hurd, NT, even full macOS).
[0]: https://bellard.org/jslinux/ https://bellard.org/jslinux/
- FullyFunctional 8y agoActually a good enough port of TinyEMU/RISC-V allowing for network communication and persistent storage would probably make the iPad interesting for me. Would Apple allow such a thing on the App Store? It would still have to be open source of course. Fedora/RISC-V is dangerously close to being useful; the only apps I miss are a couple of the big hurdles: Firefox, GHC, and Java.
- yjftsjthsd-h 8y ago> even full macOS And hilariously enough, I think that would actually be within Apple's license, since an iPad is, after all, Apple branded Hardware.